07/07/2010
Six months after their birth, it's the final chapter for the Farming Today pigs as they go off to the abattoir.
Six months after their birth, it's the final chapter for the Farming Today pigs as they go off to the abattoir. We've followed them from insemination and now fully fattened they've come to the end of their life. And with a hosepipe ban being brought into force in the North West of England we find out just how dry the UK currently is.
Pressnter: Anna Hill; Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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